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Amy Edmondson is a management professor at Harvard Business School and has done a tremendous amount of work in the area of psychological safety.
In her Tedx Talk, she describes psychological safety as “a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.” Psychological safety is a critical yet often overlooked concept, and one which underpins Edmondson’s latest book, The Fearless Organization – Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.
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Psychological safety is not a personality difference but rather a feature of the workplace that leaders can and must help create.
Most companies do not pay adequate attention to the need for psychological safety to help people cope with the uncertainty and anxiety of organizational change. Psychological safety at any company is vital for helping people overcome the defensiveness and “learning anxiety” they face at work, especially when something doesn’t go as they’d hoped or expected.
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Company strategy can be viewed as a hypothesis, to be tested continuously, rather than a plan.
Organisational learning – championed by company leaders but enacted by everyone – requires actively seeking deviations that challenge the assumptions underpinning a current strategy.
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Being able to say that you don’t know and driving participation through inquiry are two strong tenets of psychological safety.
Amy Edmondson shares some rules of thumb for asking a good question: One, you don’t know the answer; two, you ask questions that don’t limit responses to Yes or No, and three, you phrase the question in a way that helps others share their thinking in a focused way.
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Working in a psychologically safe environment doesn’t mean that people always agree with one another for the sake of being nice. It also doesn’t mean that people offer unequivocal praise or unconditional support for everything you have to say.
Psychological safety is about candour, about making it possible for productive disagreement and free exchange of ideas. Conflict inevitably arises in any workplace. Psychological safety enables people on different sides of a conflict to speak candidly about what’s bothering them.
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Psychological safety isn’t about personalities and refers to the work climate, and climate affects people with different personality traits in roughly similar ways.
In a psychologically safe climate, people will offer ideas and voice their concerns regardless of whether they tend toward introversion or extroversion.
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Although trust and psychological safety have much in common, they aren’t interchangeable concepts.
A key difference is that psychological safety is experienced at a group level. Further, psychological safety describes a temporally immediate experience
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Psychological safety is not an “anything goes” environment where people aren’t expected to adhere to high standards or meet deadlines. It isn’t about becoming “comfortable” at work.
Psychological safety enables candour and openness and, as such, thrives in an environment of mutual respect.
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An appropriate, empathetic and powerful question has the following attributes:
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What the leader needs to do for setting up the stage:
This accomplishes shared expectations and meaning.
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What a leader needs to do to invite participation:
This accomplishes confidence in the team that voices are welcome.
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What a leader needs to do to garner productive response:
This creates a shared learning environment with mutual respect.
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An overlooked factor at an organization: The climate of psychological safety
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